At least 22 Major League Soccer games this season will be streamed live on Facebook with English-language commentary under an agreement with Univision Deportes. The league and network said Friday that Chicago’s match at expansion Atlanta on March 18 will be the first of the telecasts available on Univision Deportes’ Facebook page. Univision holds MLS’s […]
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Social media giant Facebook has launched its much hyped “fake news” crackdown initiative in the US, tagging as “disputed” the stories that are deemed false by fact checking organisations, the media reported on Sunday. The new feature uses non-partisan third-party organisations like Snopes and Politifact to assess the factual accuracy of stories reported as fake […]
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Let say you’ve finally decided to quit Facebook, you can delete your Facebook account permanently. However, it’s important to remember that a deleted account can’t be reactivated and everything that you’ve shared on your profile is deleted as well. Follow the underlined steps to permanently delete your Facebook account: ⇒ Step 1: Log on to […]
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Santa Claus’ Facebook account has been reinstated after the social media company suspended his access and demanded proof of identity on Christmas Day. Claus, a North Pole city councilman, said he was never given a reason why his page was blocked. He said he thought Facebook didn’t believe his name was Santa Claus or that […]
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Police in Thailand arrested a student pro-democracy activist Saturday for sharing a story about the country’s new king that was posted on Facebook by the Thai-language service of the BBC. The arrest was apparently the first under the country’s tough lese majeste law since King Vajiralongkorn Bodindradebayavarangkun took the throne on Thursday, succeeding his late […]
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Facebook had a tool to weed out fake news circulating on the social network this year but declined to deploy it for fear of offending conservatives, a report said Monday. The report by the online news site Gizmodo comes with Facebook under fire for allowing hoaxes and misinformation to go viral and — according to […]
Read More Facebook said on Monday it would partner with 50 broadcast stations, print and online publications for an Election Day live video blitz, as the social media company aims to build on the momentum of its popular Facebook Live video streaming service. The move comes as Facebook and rival sites like Twitter increasingly embrace live video […]
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MTN Group announced on Wednesday it emerged the first mobile operator in the world to deploy and test the open optical packet transport platform, Voyager, in telecoms and technology. The telecom infra project (TIP) initiative, launched in February this year, is a global platform that brings together key operators in the telecoms and technology sector […]
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Facebook today Wednesday delivered another blockbuster earnings performance, showing solid growth in mobile ad revenues as the social network expands into new services. Profit leapt 166 percent to $2.4 billion on revenue that surged to $7 billion from $4.5 billion during the same period a year earlier, third quarter results showed. “We had another good quarter,” […]
Read More Facebook will now allow Americans to order a meal, buy movie tickets or make an appointment at the hairdresser without having to leave the social networking site. The US company announced Wednesday the addition of new tools on the site to allow users to link directly with businesses. For example, a pizza can be delivered […]
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Looking to break out of a “messy” email situation, the nonprofit group dosomething.org recently switched over to a new way of communicating among its far-flung teams. Moving most internal communications to the messaging application Slack with its “channels” for various teams made it easier to coordinate the group’s social change projects across 131 countries, said […]
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Godwin Benson, a Nigerian tech entrepreneur, has won the Internet.org innovation challenge for education. Benson is the creator of Tuteria Nigeria, an online platform that links up those interested in learning to potential tutors. Mark Zuckerberg, who met with Benson during his visit to Nigeria, shared news of the innovator’s achievement. Besides Benson, five other […]
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